Technical Product Manager New Remote - United States

Kunai Co.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Kunai Co. is seeking a product leader to own credit decisioning, fulfillment, and acquisitions for a growing Personal Loans business. You will own the backend services and platform capabilities powering loan approval and issuance.

You will partner with engineering to design scalable platform-based solutions, lead scrum teams, and translate banking requirements into precise product specs while aligning with risk and compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading backend services and distributed systems, preferably platform-based products.
• Banking or financial services experience, credit decisioning or lending a strong plus.
• Strong stakeholder management across business, risk and engineering.
• Ability to translate complex banking requirements into clear specs.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for credit decisioning, fulfillment, and acquisitions.
• Define requirements for backend services and distributed systems for Personal Loans originations.
• Partner with engineering to design scalable platform-based products.
• Lead scrum teams through planning, backlog management, and ceremonies.
• Translate banking rules into actionable product specs.
• Align decisioning logic with risk and compliance stakeholders.
• Prioritize backlog balancing new capabilities with reliability and scale.
• Make data-informed tradeoffs on what ships now vs later.
• Communicate roadmap and decisions to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills

Backend product ownership

Distributed systems

Platform-based products

Stakeholder management

Technical depth (AWS)

Communication

Ambiguity navigation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS

Job description

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

You’ll lead product for credit decisioning, fulfillment, and acquisitions in support of a growing Personal Loans business, owning the backend services and platform capabilities that power how loans get approved and issued.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own the product roadmap for credit decisioning, fulfillment, and acquisitions capabilities
• Define requirements for backend services and distributed systems that support Personal Loans origination
• Partner with engineering to design platform-based products that scale across multiple use cases
• Lead scrum teams through planning, backlog management, and delivery ceremonies
• Translate banking and lending requirements into clear, actionable product specs
• Work with credit, risk, and compliance stakeholders to align on decisioning logic and business rules
• Prioritize a backlog that balances new acquisition capabilities with platform reliability and scale
• Make data-informed tradeoffs on what ships now versus what gets sequenced for later
• Communicate roadmap, progress, and decisions clearly to stakeholders and leadership

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Experience leading product for backend services and distributed systems, ideally platform-based products
• Banking or financial services industry experience, credit decisioning or lending a strong plus
• Experience leading scrum teams, including backlog ownership and sprint ceremonies
• Working understanding of AWS and how it shapes product and technical decisions
• Some exposure to front end product work is a plus, but not required
• Engineering background preferred, not required, but comfort going deep on technical detail is important
• Strong stakeholder management skills across business, risk, and engineering teams
• A clear communicator who is collaborative, curious, and comfortable in ambiguity

Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.

Minimum Degree Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college isrequired